[ipxe-devel] Getting system architecture

[Michael Brown]

On Wednesday 06 Jul 2011 09:17:46 Oliver Rath wrote:
> is it a big thing to get the architecture-type (i.e. 32 or 64 bit) in a
> settings-variable? In dchp option 93 (rfc 4578) is written, that any
> pxe-client has to build in sending the arch-type like
> 
> #dhcp-match=peecees, option:client-arch, 0
> #x86-32 #dhcp-match=itanics, option:client-arch, 2
> #IA64 #dhcp-match=hammers, option:client-arch, 6
> #x86-64 #dhcp-match=mactels, option:client-arch, 7
> #EFI x86-64

Unless I'm misreading RFC 4578, there's no value for option 93 that 
differentiates between 32-bit and 64-bit platforms except under EFI.

What value would you expect a 64-bit PCBIOS system to send for option 93?

Michael